Fear Of Flying: A Novel

"Is it cheating to pick everyone’s favorite book of 1973 as a favorite in 2013? Who cares, when that book is the 40th anniversary edition of Fear of Flying. Erica Jong’s seminal — I know, I know, but can you blame me? — work on female sexuality is worth rereading for two reasons. One, it’s a great book, with a warm and funny heroine — more than a zipless read, if you will. It’s simply fun to read the adventures of the deeply likable Isadora Wing, and it’s sexy as hell. And two, once you’ve read it, you can listen to the inimitable Susan Stamberg’s look back with Jong on the environment that created Fear of Flying and why it’s still important, 40 years later. The icing on the cake? Jong’s seductive alto reading from her work, and Mama Stamberg giggling over the zipless f- - -."